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Awful, Terrible, No-good Layabout
- POLICEHIGHWATERINIGO HANLEGAL NAMEInigo Han Beom-seokAGE & BIRTH29 (September 29th, 1993)ALIASHighwaterGENDERMaleHEIGHT | WEIGHT183 cm | 77.7 kgGANG & RANKNOPD SergeantACTIVE SINCE2015REPUTATION'HE'S A LOOSE CANNON, BUT GODDAMMIT, HE'S THE BEST WE'VE GOT.' cowboy cop. Very passionate, very in the wrong.Home DistrictCentral DistrictGENERAL DESCRIPTIONA tall man with long, grey hair and stark, amber eyes. He sports two pairs of horns that curve forwards, and a long, reptilian tail. He is lean and fit, and cuts a fairly intimidating figure in a black uniform, though his fairly androgynous appearance may undercut his intimidation factor, just a little bit.PERSONALITY
Inigo believes in justice, and justice alone. However, his time in New Oasis has corrupted that view somewhat- no matter how hard he tries, no matter how much evidence, how much testimony he can drudge up from endless investigations, he will never win. Knowing this, his beliefs have shifted drastically, now acknowledging that means are justified by their ends, and that, a twisted, warped, plagued land such as New Oasis cannot be tamed through by-the-book procedures alone. Described as a loose cannon, Inigo has, time and time again, pulled rank and taken out a squad of officers to make his arrests, with or without justification for his hunches. He is the kind to kick down the door first, book everyone in the room, then ask questions later. He has blatantly disregarded direct orders from top brass to pursue his prey, if only to inconvenience the latter. Whatever dent he can make to the evils of this land, he will make it.
As a person, Inigo is curt and terse, and is a staunch believer of actions speaking louder than words, at least from his side. He's not too sociable, and struggles outwardly to befriend others, not from lack of trying though. He does try his best, but he often comes off as severe and tense, and a little bit of a workaholic. He doesn't have much going on in his life other than work, and it shows in his conversation topics. Outside of barking orders, reading out rights, or discussing work-related things, he clams up. He desperately wants to be part of a group, though- on his free time, he tries out things that his colleagues and what few social interactions he has have brought up in an unrelated conversation. He doesn’t always do well in these things, and he doesn’t want to talk about his endeavors until he has succeeded in them. When it isn't related to actual work, he is kind of a klutz, and it occasionally shows.
HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY
Han Beom-seok came from a troubled place. His parents were members of an off-shoot branch of the Kkangpae that rooted itself in Amestria. Known as the Saengsacho, the small community warred with other gangs, seeking control and protection of their own immigrant peoples in Amestria. Han Dong-suk, Beom-seok's father, was one lieutenant of the Saengsacho, and when he wasn't looking behind his back for rival tried members, he was watching out for the greedy members in his own gang. He barely spent much time with Beom-seok, even at his youth. His mother, Han Mi-young, was helping his father run the gang herself, and that only left Inigo with his grandparents, and, once he got older, his friends.
His displeasure with his parents’ activities only festered and grew over time, and when he graduated from college, his friends suggested that they applied for police academy together. In a bid to at least earn some attention for his parents, negative or positive, he went along with it. They were displeased, of course, and threatened to disown him. He cursed them. What good was purportedly doing this for their people, if they did nothing for their own blood? What good was it when all they were doing was sowing chaos, killing people, and making their people seem like savages in Amestria? It did nothing to help them or their people. Always glancing behind them, always paranoid, always worried and anxious that their time might be up. What good was all of it? He did not wait for them to discard him like a dirty rag, he left on his own accord.
His acceptance to the academy took some time, mired by his relationship to Dong-suk, and by the time he convinced them that he was fully out of the Han family’s activities and wanted nothing to do with them, his friends were already halfway through to graduation. Left behind, he could only stand on his own two feet, persevering on his own to the end of his courses. It wasn’t easy- Inigo was never the physical type. He often served as the face of the trio of friends- Ferdinand was the brawn, and Vincenzo was the brain. He wasn’t going to give up, however. Through grueling training sessions amidst cramming all the knowledge into his head, he built himself up, block by block. Ferdinand and Vincenzo left the academy during this time, and they were later deployed to some podunk island called New Oasis. He was nearing his end of his academy years when he received the news.
Both of his friends died in the line of duty.
Incensed, furious, Inigo, as he now called himself, worked even harder. He did not make the top of the list, but he was pretty damn close. When given the choice of his deployment, he immediately answered. He would go to their place of death, he would see for himself what hell they had placed themselves in, and he would carve into the ground his legacy of cleansing the scum that polluted the earth of New Oasis.
He had expected it to be bad. He had expected it to be a terrible place. He had expected corruption, drugs, prostitution, all of that. What he was met with was his expectations, magnified by ten times. The police’s power was impotent in the face of the four warring gangs that threatened to tear the island apart. This was some sort of sick game to someone. Over time, what remained of his innocence began to fray, but his resolve strengthened, as more and more people, both cops and civilians fell around him. He discovered that playing by the rulebook was no longer effective, and started down the path of brutality. Though his methods were considered maverick and unorthodox, they brought results that were previously unprecedented in the NOPD. Most would rather he play it safe- he will not. His life was made a nightmare because of this very thing. No one should ever suffer this ever again. He will reform New Oasis, he will bring a new dawn, and he will do it, come hell or high water.
He was recently promoted from Detective to Sergeant, and has earned a moniker amongst his peers for his own quote of ‘hell or high water’. Locked in a room with him, there is virtually no escape, after all- prison is their hell, and he is that high water.
RELATIONSHIPS
Han Dong-suk: Father. Estranged. Hates him.
Han Mi-young: Mother. Estranged. Hates her.
Vincenzo Clarke: Close friend of Inigo's from childhood. Deceased. One of the few reasons for Inigo's pursuit of justice.
Ferdinand Aberdeen: Close friend of Inigo's from childhood. Deceased. One of the few people that gives him the will to carry on on his duty.
NOPD Colleagues: TBA
- POTENTIALITY PROFILECRYSTAL DRAGONINIGO'S POTENTIAL • CRYSTAL DRAGONPRIMARY CLASSChimericSECONDARY CLASSEtherOTHER NAMESCrystallizationInigo’s Potential allows him to grow and manifest white, extremely durable crystals that rate 10 on the Mohs’ scale on his body. He can eject these crystals out from his body as projectiles as well, with the average speed of 80 mph. He can even extend his range of crystallisation by spreading it out from his body, and onto surfaces he is touching, allowing him to create walls of crystals to further impede criminals. His Potential also allows him to temporarily seal up open wounds on himself, and even reattach dismembered body parts for a time, though he would have to keep those parts in crystal form.STRENGTHS + WEAKNESSES
Crystal Dragon is a primarily defensive Potential, and it shows. Being able to create extremely durable crystals that can weather even the harshest of blows, it allows for Inigo to stand his ground, unfaltering. It turns him into the greatest immovable object of the NOPD, and he can easily lock down a single point of entry or exit by himself just by simply standing between his targets and their goal.
His Potential, while boasting extremely high defensive capabilities, does not have much range- he can only protect what is directly behind him and then some. While he can shoot crystals from his body, they reveal a momentary weak spot when he does so, allowing him to be hurt by a mix of precision and speed when he does so. His crystals also do not protect him from other types of damage or pain, like fire, extreme cold, or poisonous gases.
WEAPONS + EQUIPMENTMonadnock PR-40 Expandable Electric Stun Baton: Specially-issued stun batons that utilise a tonfa build. By depressing a button on its handle, it can administer a powerful shock that can stun most HPs. The shock is too powerful to be used against NPs, and its deployment must be considered carefully by its user. Due to the nature of this weapon, it sees very little deployment outside of New Oasis. Its build is more solid than its predecessors, allowing it to survive encounters with HPs. Due to the budgetary constraints and resources that it took to make this, coupled with the relative lack of use it would normally see on a global scale, however, very few were ever produced and distributed.
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